Word: landmarking
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...landmark case Seeger decision of 1964, the Supreme Court broadened its definition of conscientious objection by including those who could demonstrate "a sincere and meaningful belief which occupies in the life of its possessor a place parallel to that filled by the God of those admittedly qualifying for the exemption...
...scientists, working for the first time with grants from a laggard Federal Government, are thinking of more down-to-earth solutions. Garbage has been used for years to create dry land from marshes and shallow tidal water; New York's La Guardia Airport is only one famous landmark that was built on refuse. Now Virginia Beach, Va., wants to see if it can turn its trash into a verdant natural stadium, using the leftovers to mold hills for children to play...
...face, a familiar Gothic landmark in the capital, now window-dresses record emporia throughout the country. His smasheroo album is in the front ranks of Billboard's "Top LPs," sandwiched between the sound track from The Wild Angels and Simon and Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. He has made appearances on the Johnny Carson Show and Hollywood Palace, and his name will soon join Clem Kadiddlehopper's on the Red Skelton Show. At 71, Everett McKinley Dirksen, minority leader of the U.S. Senate, has made the scene...
...final act at Manhattan's old Metropolitan Opera House resounded to an anvil chorus performed by wreckers and an anguished lamento from civic-minded spear carriers who had campaigned to save the old firetrap as a city landmark. But the house, which for 83 seasons had provided an echo chamber for virtually all the world's great voices, was sort of a wreck already, with no rehearsal space, some acoustical dead spots, a dusty stage that choked the singers, and a dingy exterior. Besides, the Met, which moved last September to its new $45 million Lincoln Center home...
...table, and the readiness to discard the only slightly old. A secondary target is the artificial stimulation of the consumer to buy in vast quantities things he never wanted until he was told. Often such complaints sound highly plausible, particularly when reinforced by a wrecking ball hitting an old landmark or an infuriating commercial peddling a clearly needless "improvement" in some trivial product. Yet waste is not what it seems to be. The term implies a moral as well as an economic judgment, and its meaning varies with both setting and purpose...